White Milkweed Flowers. Central and south florida. The herb produces one or two large wart like pods that mature in the fall redwing milkweed is a native perennial in the acanthaceae family.
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White swamp milkweed produces an inflorescence with few flowers. Asclepias verticillata or white milkweed is a deep rooted perennial with small greenish white flowers blooming in small clusters between july to august the late blooming milkweed makes it a valuable late season food source for monarch butterflies and their caterpillars. It grows in damp to wet soils and also is cultivated as a garden plant for its flowers which attract butterflies and other pollinators with nectar like most other milkweeds it has latex containing toxic chemicals a. Milkweed flowers are highly specialized.